Access shows off Access Linux Platform 3.0 – ALP 3.0 as next-gen Palm OS
By Will Park on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 5:09 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Developer, Linux
We’ve been waiting for what seems like forever for the next-generation successor to the Palm OS. The simple, user-friendly Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS (Garnet) hasn’t aged gracefully enough to compete with other intuitive mobile platforms with more kick and eye-appeal. To that end, Palm promised to deliver their next-generation Palm OS, codenamed “Nova,” to market in 2009. The Linux-based Nova mobile OS was promised to bring the Palm brand back to its former industry-pioneering glory. And so, we’re glad to see that the wait for the “new” Palm OS platform is almost over!
Access, the people behind the Palm mobile OS, has revealed their new successor to the aging Palm OS platform. Access Linux Platform 3.0 (ALP 3.0), as it’s called, has been unveiled to the world, complete with screenshots. ALP 3.0 will be compatible with Palm Garnet OS applications as well as Java applications to help make the transition to ALP 3.0 as seamless as possible. And, with LiMo Foundation compliance, ALP 3.0 is on board with mobile Linux specs.
ALP 3.0 screenshots show what looks like an intuitive UI with a design aesthetic that reflects its Palm OS-roots. Palm OS fans will probably find that ALP 3.0 isn’t that far a cry from their beloved mobile platform, but with added functionality and that sought-after eye-appeal, ALP 3.0 is a definite improvement.
The release date for ALP 3.0 isn’t yet known, but previous speculation puts the next-generation Palm OS on schedule for an early 2009 delivery. ALP Mini, on the other hand, is available to bring a pared-down ALP platform to feature phones immediately.
[Via: PalmInfoCenter]
Will calendar and address data formats have changes in the new palm os and make old data corrupted for the new software also, like I was told by PALM technical experts, when I called many times for help to migrate my prior voluminous palm data, and will the new hotsync create duplicate data each hotsync? And will there be another unknown software co. to start all over again with to see their approach to support, who ACCESS will point you to, fix such basic software palm problems. If so they may want to reconsider that approach; as much as I liked the centro despite the above stated problems, I am currently looking into blackberry, who I hear has palm format conversion s/w.